Design Thinking in Practice
The course “Design Thinking in Practice” is designed so that every participant can experience the principles of design thinking on their skin and use them after completing the course.
In recent decades, the words “design”, “innovation” or “design thinking” have been heard very often. Perhaps even too often, and it makes you wonder if these words have any meaning.
Today, there are countless courses available online that describe design thinking and practice examples from the organizations mentioned. However, to truly understand the design approach, you need to experience it.
EU co-financing of 50-100% is available to companies.
The total cost of tuition may vary depending on the rules of the specific association.
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Design Thinking in Practice
Course target
Development of knowledge and skills about the theoretical principles of design thinking. The training also includes practical work, solving a business challenge selected by the instructor and working in multidisciplinary teams.
Audience
Professionals who have heard of design thinking but haven’t put it into practice.
At Course Completion you will be able to:
- Understand design thinking as a philosophy on a practical level.
- Apply various types of design thinking tools.
- Organize and conduct customer and/or user interviews.
- Apply various idea generation techniques.
- Perform early prototyping of generated ideas.
- Implement prototype testing with customers and/or users.
Prerequisites
There are no specific prerequisites.
Training materials
Training materials prepared by BDA.
Certification Exam
Not intended.
Course outline
1. Preparation for lessons (1.5h)
- Reading material on design thinking.
- Video with practice examples.
2. Introductory lesson (3h)
- Introduction to Design Thinking.
- Impact of design in business.
- Double Diamond Methodology.
- Examples of design thinking practice.
- Getting to know the course challenge.
Homework:
- Reading material about research. (0.5h)
3. Research workshop (3h)
- Exploring the context.
- Defining the customer profile.
- Conducting customer interviews.
Homework:
- Reading material on definition. (0.5h)
- Conducting an interview. (1h)
4. Defining workshop (3h)
- Collection of interview results.
- Mapping the customer journey.
- Redefining the challenge.
Homework:
- Reading material on creating ideas. (0.5h)
5. Idea generation workshop (3h)
- Creation of ideas using different levels of techniques.
- Prioritizing ideas.
- A selection of ideas.
Homework:
- Reading material about experimentation. (0.5h)
6. Experimentation workshop (3h)
- Prototyping in a group.
- Prototype analysis.
- Prototype testing procedure preparation.
Homework:
- Reading material on collecting the results of experiments. (0.5h)
- Conducting the experiment. (1h)
7. Final lesson (3h)
- Collection of experimental results.
- Group results presentations.
- Course retrospective.
If you want to get more information about this course, contact us by phone +371 67505091 or send an e-mail at mrn@bda.lv.
